However, a part of Gatsby is aware of this and the reason he creates his fictitious family is to impress her. The only way he believes he can have Daisy is by buying her affections and as he only focuses on chasing the American Dream he is oblivious to the fact that he is unworthy of this dream and therefore unworthy of her. Gatsby corrupts Daisy with the wealth he provides her and is ignorant to how he is influencing her “It makes me sad because IVe never seen such ?”such beautiful shirts before”. Gatsby influences other characters with his llusions of grandeur of the “American Dream”, to the extent that they become corrupted by wealth. To illuminate how Gatsby created his new identity, Nick Carraway compares him to Jesus Christ, therefore a comparison can be made that Gatsby transformed himself into the ideal man that he envisioned, a “Platonic conception of himself”. The novel is set during prohibition and it is implied that Gatsby gained his money as a bootlegger and used drugstores as a front for his bootlegging. ” However it is implied that he actually got his money from illegal trading.
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